Practice Contact Information

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Beaux Lane House
Mercer Street Lower
Dublin
Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland

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Areas of surgical specialization in Head and Neck Surgery

Head and Neck Research, Head and Neck Surgeon

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Biography/Statement

Professor Mark G. Shrime, MD, MPH, PhD, FACS, is O’Brien Chair of Global Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

He previously served as the founder and Director of the Center for Global Surgery Evaluation at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and as Research Director for the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard.

He is the author of seminal papers on the global burden of surgical disease, the financial burden facing surgical patients, and the number of people who cannot access safe surgery worldwide. He served as a co-author on the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery.

Dr. Shrime graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1996 with a BA in molecular biology. He received his MD from the University of Texas in 2001, after taking a year to teach organic chemistry in Singapore. Medical school was followed by a residency in otolaryngology at the joint Columbia/Cornell program in Manhattan, followed, in turn, by a fellowship in head and neck surgical oncology at the University of Toronto in 2007. He completed a second fellowship in microvascular reconstructive surgery, also at the University of Toronto, in 2008. He was the first to identify a novel independent prognostic indicator in head and neck cancer.

To date, he has worked and taught in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Benin, Togo, Congo, Haiti, Saudi Arabia, Cameroon, and Madagascar. In May, 2011, he graduated with an MPH in global health from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he was a finalist for both the Albert Schweitzer award and the HSPH Student Recognition award, and in May, 2015, he received his PhD in health policy from Harvard University, with a concentration in decision science.

His research has been supported by the Damon Runyon Cancer Foundation and by an anonymous donation to the Center for Global Surgery Evaluation; he has previously received research support from the GE Foundation’s Safe Surgery 2020 project and the Steven C. and Carmella Kletjian Foundation. He is currently the Principal Investigator on a randomized controlled trial of financial incentives for surgical patients in Guinea and the Principal Investigator on a prospective extended cost-effectiveness analysis of maxillofacial surgery in West Africa.

His academic pursuits focus on surgical delivery in low- and middle-income countries, where he has a specific interest in the intersection of health,  impoverishment, and inequity. His work aims to determine optimal policies and platforms for surgical delivery that maximize health benefits while simultaneously minimizing the risk of financial catastrophe faced by patients. In 2018, he was awarded the Arnold P. Gold Humanism in Medicine Award by the American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery.

When not working, he is an avid photographer and rock climber and has competed on Seasons 8, 9, and 11 of American Ninja Warrior.

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Bibliography

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Practice Contact Information

Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University
Niao Song District

Kaohsiung
Taiwan
833
Taiwan

Phone: +886975056508
Email: cychien3965@adm.cgmh.org.tw
Web Site: https://www1.cgmh.org.tw/branch/shk/index.htm

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Areas of surgical specialization in Head and Neck Surgery

Head and Neck Research, Head and Neck Surgeon

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Biography/Statement

Professor
Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
Head and Neck Multidiscipline Team Leader
Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taiwan
Chang Gung Molecular Medicine Research Center
Institute for Translation Research in Biomedicine

 

 

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Education and Professional Experiences:

1990 MD, Kaohsiung Medical University

1995- present Faculty, Department of Otolaryngology-Head Neck Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

2006-2015 Department chair of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Head and Neck Multidiscipline Team Leader, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

2016 – present Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Head and Neck Science

2012 – present Associate Editor for the Translational Oncology Section of BMC Cancer

2014 – present International Board of Auris Nasus Larynx

2004 – 2011 Editorial Board Member of The Laryngoscope

2017- present Editorial Board, European Archives of Otolaryngology Head Neck Surgery

2019- present, Editorial Board, Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

2019- present International Editorial Board, Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery

2021- present Associate Editor, Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment

2009 – present, Steering Committee member, Asian Society of Head and Neck Oncology

2015 – 2018, President, Taiwan Head Neck Society

Professional Affiliation:

Member of the Taiwan Otolaryngology Head and Neck Society

Member of the Taiwan Head and Neck Society

Member of the Taiwan Society for Skull Base Surgery

Member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Fellow of the International Academy of Oral Oncology

Fellow of American College of Surgeon

Active Member of American Head and Neck Society

Founding Fellow of Asian Society of Head and Neck Oncology